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Personally, I've always been ashamed of my body and I've hated being so skinny - I had an eating disorder for so long.
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I genuinely do want the world to change in a positive way, but I wouldn't call myself an activist, you know? I'm an entertainer who engages with activism because it feels really meaningful for me.
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I've been taking medication for depression and anxiety ever since I was a teenager and I've had treatment for both.
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There's entrenched homophobia behind the scenes at all levels of the music industry.
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We have to listen and learn from each other to lift each other up, so we can all live the life we deserve.
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I identify as a gay man all the time, but I also like to identify as queer.
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I'm not saying that being straight is easy, but when you're gay, you don't really have a familial network or support system. You have to find that.
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Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.
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My dad had been very absent, even when he was there. Then he left the family and moved away. Our relationship, it feels to me, ended when I was 13.
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I had what would now be called sleep paralysis, from six years old until maybe I was 16.
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I was obsessed with Jeff Buckley for a while - I was convinced that Jeff Buckley and I were communicating with each other through time.
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I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.
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I think kids are all focused on their hierarchy and status, and I was low status or something.
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I always had really, really bad nightmares, like night terrors or whatever they're called. I used to wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to move... I'd hallucinate and have really scary visions and dreams, so I wouldn't want to sleep.
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It's just a very weird thing to have a relationship that's commented on by the world wide web.
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As young as 10 I started fancying boys. It's a common experience but I just wished I wasn't gay up until the age of 18 or 19.
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The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like, who cares?
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I don't know what's wrong with me - I don't know why I only get picked to play strange characters!
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I've mostly worked in weird films playing weird characters, probably because I'm a weird person.
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It's like any other part of your body - your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.
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The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.
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I'm fascinated by technology and how it is changing the way we live and view our humanity.
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I'm the person I am because of all the support we have but inside there is still a scared, gay kid, worried he's going to get bullied and people aren't going to like what I do.
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I'm a big believer that if you want things to change you have to embody that change.
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I grew up loving artists like the Spice Girls and Britney Spears - artists who seemed to live this fantasy lifestyle, and I remember always wanting to join these fantasy people in that world.
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At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.
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I feel like you could listen to any Bon Iver song and it would make you cry. They're all so heart-wrenching.
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I feel like listening to sad songs are a way of narrating your life and confirming your identity.
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Now, to be a mainstream act, you have to be firing on all cylinders on so many different platforms. You've got to have a social media voice. You've got to do promo on TV. You've got to tour everywhere.
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I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor, you have to do what someone else tells you to do and say someone else's words. And you're limited by the way you look and music is just more rewarding creatively for me.
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My mum listened to stuff like Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos, but she also listened to a lot of '80s stuff like Heart. I still quite like Heart.
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I used to travel a lot as a kid and when I first moved to England I felt lonely and my parents were splitting up at the time.
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Felt really low as a teenager and hearing music from artists that could express their pain in a way that is beautiful and made me feel better about the way I felt and I think that is something that anyone can relate to.
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